The trailer to Hollywood’s Tom Cruise vehicle adaptation of time loop military SF light novel All You Need Is Kill -retitled to “Edge of Tomorrow” for the discerning American audience – has been attracting attention amongst fans of the original, with some even prepared to concede it may actually be good.

The trailer seems to have earned some approval, although there are still the expected complaints about Hollywood taking liberties with the source material from Japanese fans, and the production still seems to be having trouble living down unflattering shots of Cruise lumbering about in a powered exo-skeleton.

No one in Hollywood can stick to the source material with even English language novels/comics, for example X-men:days of raping a great comic book story. Hell even stuff that is done well like Game of Thrones they muck about with the details. Too much cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.

To be fair, Japan routinely rapes manga. The number of awful manga adaptations far outnumber the good ones. If you want to see a first class hatchet job, check out Shinobi, which is a live action movie based on Basilisk, which was an anime based on the novel Kouga Ninpouchou....not even hollywood could butcher a story as bad as the Japanese did in Shinobi.

Not to defend Hollywood's adaptation which will probably suck but man, 'All you need is kill' is a terrible name. If you want to use a 'cool' foreign name for your work at least try to make it make sense.

To anyone who bitches about "changes from the original".... This is the dumbest complaint ever. There is no way to make a good movie 99% of the time by straight adaption from the book, comic, play.. etc. etc. etc. It has to be changed in order to accommodate the needs of cinema.

Now... if you want to say, "the changes they made were poor decisions because (anything but it is a change from the original) of other related scenes and character choices included in the movie itself...etc. etc," then go ahead.

Oh god, don't remind me. That's not ending well for a certain other mecha live action adaption just recently. Seriously, Jap live action adaption is much worse than Hollywood's, hard to believe as it is. They should stick to animation.

Tom Cruise has been making some pretty good sci-fi movies lately since his 'big hollywood blowup'. I am definitely going to see this one and reserve judgement until I do.
He did a good job on his last couple of sci-fi flicks, I have high hopes for this one. (and yes, picking him to play Jack Reacher was a bit strange as the character is supposed to be over 6 foot tall, but hey that's hollywood.)

This story appears to be writen by a really horrible fps player who got his inspiration from respawning and was rewritten so many times that it ended up like so... But hey what if we can respawn in real life? This somehow kind of feeds that fantasy.